Next day, our car ran to next destination, "Besshi copper mine".
As we went into the mountains deep,
long tunnels started to come out one after another.
and we finally got out of the last tunnel,
it disclosed a landscape of stark mountains covered with snow.
The atmosphere suddenly changed,
there seen no more a landscape of the warm, serene landscape of Shikoku,
but just the bleak, dreary landscape of winter in nature.
it was overwhelmingly barren, awfully beautiful, and surrealistic.
I opened the window, the cold wind coming into our car.
We got off the car and looked into the river in a ragged hollow,
and gasped at its clearness of the water.
The contrast of clear water and the huge dam was even more impressive
(imagine how many small villages were destined to be sunk into!) .
Unfortunately, we were supposed to get into the inside of copper mine,
however ended up giving up because the road was closed during winter.
then we left decided to be surely coming back again in summer.
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